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119-hr-6548119th CongressWALLET

DHS Suicide Prevention and Resiliency for Law Enforcement Act

Sponsored By: Representative Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]

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Summary

Establishes a Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Program that would coordinate suicide prevention, peer support, training, and data collection across Department of Homeland Security law enforcement components to improve resilience and reduce suicides among officers and agents.

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  • For officers and agents: Would require coordinated training on mental health, resilience, and suicide prevention, offer multiple confidential ways to seek help, protect against retaliation for seeking assistance, and allow access to private clinicians and service animals.
  • For families and survivors: Would support suicide prevention and resiliency training and services aimed at families of Department law enforcement and surviving families of officers lost to suicide.
  • For Department components and peer support staff: Would create a Peer-to-Peer Support Program Advisory Council with clinicians and trained peer officials from each component, mandate data collection and annual confidential surveys, require a coordinating directive within 180 days, and call for briefings annually through fiscal year 2027.

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More mental health support for DHS officers

If enacted, this bill would create a DHS-wide Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Program run by the Department's Chief Medical Officer. The Chief Medical Officer would name a Workplace Health and Wellness Coordinator and must issue a directive describing program roles within 180 days. Components would have to appoint at least one coordinator, report officer suicide incidents to the Coordinator, and the Coordinator would forward those reports to the national law enforcement suicide data program. The Program would collect and study mental health and suicide data, set evidence-based policies, and create a peer-to-peer advisory council with clinicians and trained peer-support staff from each component. Components would be required to provide in-person or live trainings at hire, annually, and during supervisory changes; offer multiple ways to get help (including private or outside clinicians and service animals); support families and surviving families; and protect officers from automatic punishment or mandatory fitness-for-duty referrals just for seeking help. Staffing and ongoing peer-support training would depend on future appropriations, and personal data collected for the program could not be published and would be limited to program use.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]

MS • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-NY-2]

    NY • R

    Sponsored 12/10/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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